Dardistan refers to a linguistic area where Dardic languages are spoken. The terms "Dardic" and "Dardistan" are not indigenous to the region, and were coined by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner.

Dardistan, region inhabited by the Dard peoples in the north of Pakistan and northern Kashmir. It includes Chitral, the upper reaches of the Panjkora River, the Kohistan (“Highlands”) of Swat, and Gilgit-Baltistan. The Dards are known to history since ancient times, mentioned by classical

2022年9月5日 · Gurez, located in the northwest part of Kashmir, is only 130 kilometers from Srinagar, the state's capital; however, the striking contrast in lifestyles is both alluring and appalling. So what is with the name 'Dardistan'? Dardistan is a term coined by well-known orientalist Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner in his book 'Dardistan 1861'.

The Dardistan Project documents the culture, history, and genetics of the Dardistan region of Asia, a region that spans the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Kashmir.

Dardic is simply a convenient term to denote a bundle of aberrant [Indo-Aryan] hill-languages which, in their relative isolation, accented in many cases by the invasion of Pathan tribes, have been in varying degrees sheltered against the expand influence of [Indo-Aryan] Midland (Madhyadesha) innovations, being left free to develop on their own.

1994年12月15日 · The term Dardestān once described the extreme northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, extending from Kashmir to Kabul (Emeneau). It is in this region that the Indic languages begin to merge with Southwestern Iranian Darī or Northeastern Iranian Pashto.

吉德拉爾 是 吉德拉尔县 的首府，其位於北部 巴基斯坦 开伯尔-普什图省 的 庫納河 河畔。 直到1947年以前，吉德拉爾皆為 吉德拉爾土邦 的首都。 Decker, D. Kendall. Languages of Chitral. 1992 [2020-03-11]. ISBN 4871875202. （原始内容 存档 于2012-12-24）. Durand, Col. A. The Making of a frontier. 1899 [2020-03-11]. （原始内容 存档 于2020-02-20）.

The Dardistan Project was founded to document the culture, history, languages, and genetics of the many peoples of Dardistan. Dardistan is a region that spans Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Kashmir. The various ethnic groups of "Dardistan" do not necessarily identify as "dards" and not all of their diverse languages are related.

Dardistan (Perso-Arabic: داردستان) is a name for the northern Pakistan, and Kashmir in the upper Indus valleys and parts of north-eastern Afghanistan. It is inhabited by the Dards speaking Dardic languages. [source?]

"Dardistan, or the country of the Daradas of Hindu mythology, embraces, in the narrowest sense of the term, the Shiná-speaking countries (Gilgit, etc.); in a wider sense, Hunza, Nagyr, Yasin, and Chitral; and in the widest, also parts of Kafiristan" (Leitner 1893:1).